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Posted November 28, 2003:

 

November 27, 2003 - Designing a dope test for research (requires registration) - BioMedNet - "Scientific misconduct is like doping in sports, says leading biochemist Peter Hans Hofschneider. The scientific community must remain alert to the problem, even small infractions of good working practice should not be tolerated."

 

Microorganisms and Autoimmunity: Making the Barren Field Fertile? (requires registration) - Nature Reviews Microbiology - "Microorganisms induce strong immune responses, most of which are specific for their encoded antigens. However, microbial infections can also trigger responses against self antigens (autoimmunity), and it has been proposed that this phenomenon could underlie several chronic human diseases, such as type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis."

 

October 2003 - Death by Medicine - www.garynull.com

 

October 2003 - Death by Medicine (abstract) - www.garynull.com

 

November 28, 2003 - Mercury A Growing Scourge - www.i-sis.org.uk

 

November 29, 2003 - Half of general practices (in England) offer patients complementary medicine - journal article (BMJ)

 

November 29, 2003 - Drug company pushes for all children under 2 to be vaccinated against pneumonia - journal article (BMJ)

 

For another perspective on what might be among the (unexamined?) consequences of this push by a drug company, go to Scandals: Changing Disease Epidemiology Via Vaccines - Are We "Robbing Peter To Pay Paul"?

 

November 29, 2003 - Drug companies succeed in keeping payments to doctors secret - journal article (BMJ)

 

December 1, 2003 - The Autism Calendar - December 2003 - Schafer Autism report

 

November 27, 2003 - Working hard at life - Backed by her parents and a few others who believe in her, Stow's Nancy Henn lives productively despite the curse of autism - The Akron Beacon Journal - "Nancy Henn can't daydream on the job.  If she's distracted for even a few minutes, her fragile inner controls may loosen, making her vulnerable to the nightmarish chaos of a broken mind."

 

Senator Bingaman's Resolution: Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the anthrax and smallpox vaccines

 

November 28, 2003 - Longtime dream spurs fight against paralysis - Washington County sheriff in 2nd term - www.ajc.com - "Smith was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare but rapid onset of weakness or paralysis in which the body's immune system typically attacks the body itself...The syndrome can be triggered by vaccinations and it has no known cause or cure. In Smith's case, a flu shot sparked the disease."

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